Happy New Year! If one of your 2025 resolutions is to do more reading, you’ve come to the right place. (Although you are more than welcome to attend Book Club if you haven’t finished [or even started] the book—Book Club is mainly an opportunity for old and new friends to get together and chat and snack.) We hope you will join us for our first book of the new year on Wednesday, January 15, at 7:30 pm, when we will be discussing Shelley Noble’s Tiffany Girls, “a gripping historical novel about the real-life ‘Tiffany Girls,’ a fascinating and largely unknown group of women artists behind Tiffany’s most legendary glassworks.”

The Holliston Public Library reserves several copies of each book for us—they can be found (typically about a month ahead of each meeting) on the shelves along the windows on the right as you enter the library; ask at the circulation desk for the HNN book. For those who want to get a head start on next month, our February book will be whatever the library designates as the “One Book, One Holliston,” but as of this writing, no book has been chosen yet. We hold most meetings in person but also have a Zoom option if you can’t attend. Please contact Debbie if you have any interest in hosting a meeting.

About the book:

It’s 1899, and Manhattan is abuzz. Louis Comfort Tiffany, famous for his stained-glass windows, is planning a unique installation at the Paris World’s Fair, the largest in history. At their fifth-floor studio on Fourth Avenue, the artists of the Women’s Division of the Tiffany Glass Company are already working longer shifts to finish the pieces that Tiffany hopes will prove that he is the world’s finest artist in glass.

Known as the “Tiffany Girls,” these women are responsible for much of the design and construction of  Tiffany’s extraordinary glassworks, but none receive credit. Brought together by chance, driven by their desire to be artists in one of the only ways acceptable for women in their time, these “Tiffany Girls” will break the glass ceiling of their era and for working women to come.